Riccardo Zacconi
Co-Founder and Shareholder @ Sweet Capital
London, United Kingdom
Riccardo Zacconi is a seed investor at Sweet Capital in London focused on Gaming and Apps. Riccardo Zacconi is based out of London, England and is the Board Member of Layer AI. Riccardo previously worked at King.com as Co-Founder and Chairman. Riccardo Zacconi attended Luiss Guido Carli University.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Riccardo Zacconi invests in
Stages Riccardo Zacconi invests in
Countries Riccardo Zacconi invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $700k–$10M
- Pre-Seed
- $3.3M–$4M
- Series A
- $1.2M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 8 (40%)
- Apps 4 (20%)
- Mobile 3 (15%)
- Software 3 (15%)
- Mobile Apps 3 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (45%)
- Series A 7 (35%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (10%)
- Series B 2 (10%)
Country
- United States 5 (25%)
- Sweden 3 (15%)
- Estonia 2 (10%)
- United Kingdom 2 (10%)
- Italy 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Fika Jobs
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is building a video-first hiring platform that combines AI interview agents with short-form video profiles. | $4M / Pre-Seed / Jun 23, 2026 | |
Cypher Games
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Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company that develops casual games for users and players. The company focuses on the next generation mobile puzzle games. It aims to shape the future of mobile gaming together with its colleagues, investors, and thought partners. | $30M / Series A / Oct 01, 2025 | |
Lexroom.ai
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Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs. | $19M / Series A / Sep 29, 2025 | |
Studio 555
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Studio 555 operates as a tech company, that creates a category where interior design meets gaming and social apps. | $4.6M / Seed / Jun 15, 2025 | |
Layer AI
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Layer AI offers a generative AI platform to assist game developers in creating 2D, 3D, and video assets. The platform enables artists to train custom AI models using their own artwork, generate game assets, and refine them using an integrated canvas tool. Layer AI supports various workflows, including live service content, game characters,backgrounds, UI elements, in-game items, and marketing campaigns. The platform is model-agnostic, allowing integration with industry-standard tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Blender, Maya, Unreal Engine, Unity, and Godot. Layer AI is built to be enterprise-ready, offering features like SOC 2 Type II compliance, single sign-on (SSO), role-based access controls, and full audit trails. The company provides different pricing plans, including a free tier for individual users and paid plans for teams and enterprises. | $6.5M / Seed / May 14, 2025 | |
Take Take Take
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Fantasy Chess is a platform that allows users to pick teams of real-world chess players, track their performance in tournaments, and receive points based on their achievement. | $5.5M / Seed / Apr 23, 2025 | |
Revyze
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Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education. | $6M / Seed / Oct 08, 2024 | |
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Cypher Games
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Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company that develops casual games for users and players. The company focuses on the next generation mobile puzzle games. It aims to shape the future of mobile gaming together with its colleagues, investors, and thought partners. | $10M / Seed / Sep 10, 2024 | |
Zaver
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Zaver is the developer of a peer-to-peer payments network that facilitates trades among peers. The company's technology automatically generates verified digital agreements between parties and includes algorithms for intelligent fraud detection, allowing users to conduct peer-to-peer transactions with lower fraud risk. | $10M / Series A / Mar 28, 2024 | |
Born
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SLAY is a social gaming company. | $5M / Seed / Feb 25, 2024 | |
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Co-Investors
About Sweet Capital
Sweet Capital is the King.com (Candy Crush) founders fund, focused on deploying capital into consumer technology companies around the world.
Sweet Capital Contacts
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Riccardo Zacconi
Co-Founder and Shareholder
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Lars Markgren
Co-Founder & Partner
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Patrik Stymne
Founder
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Sebastian Knutsson
Co-Founder
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Thomas Hartwig
Co-founder & Partner
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FAQ
What does Riccardo Zacconi invest in?
Riccardo Zacconi invests primarily in Gaming, Apps and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Riccardo Zacconi's check size?
Riccardo Zacconi typically joins rounds of $700k–$10M at Seed, $3.3M–$4M at Pre-Seed and $1.2M–$30M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Riccardo Zacconi participates in.
When did Riccardo Zacconi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Riccardo Zacconi closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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